18 November 2016
Pluto's heart is an ocean of slushy ice
... strong, and the basin fills with nitrogen ice. That nitrogen represents the excess mass." Nimmo and ...This is seen in images from New Horizons which appear to show nitrogen glaciers flowing out of mountainous terrain around Sputnik Planitia. "Pluto ...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
... 5 mission, which is helping to track changes in ozone, air-quality and climate by monitoring a range of gases, including ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, aerosols and hydrocarbons. There are also plans to monitor carbon dioxide with the...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
... the same mixture of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulphur, along with “methane, ...its soil as permafrost, as well as vast quantities of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen, all in forms readily accessible to those clever...
04 May 2020
Exoplanets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could harbour life
... (H2). An atmosphere rich in H2 might not seem like the best planet to aim for, as complex life as we know it requires nitrogen and oxygen to breath, but early in Earth’s history, our atmosphere contained small amounts of hydrogen (H2) that persisted...
December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
...than three astronomical units from the Sun. Sulfur- and nitrogen bearing species, but also many hydrocarbons up to quite ...water was brought by Kuiper belt comets. The discovery of molecular nitrogen points to a very cold origin for this comet. There ...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
... are typically kept under an inert atmosphere, usually dry nitrogen gas. However, all the samples which have been returned...’s Lunar Curation Laboratory. The glovebox is filled with nitrogen to minimise the samples’ alteration. Overview of Johnson ...
